Overheard at the Strand

By Ernest Slyman

June 20, 2017

Dear Diary:

Overheard at the Strand Book Store:

“That tall, bearded fellow standing over there, he’s an authority on James Joyce. I don’t know whether to pose a question on Bloom’s mysterious charisma, how Joyce showers his book with cryptic references, managing all the while to straddle the existential abyss, or grab the authority by the collar and give him a kiss?”